Reinforcement for cushion-tires



LE. HALE AND E. F.'BRUNNER.

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JAMES E. HALE AND'ELMEE F. BEUNNEE, or GOODYEAR TIRE a RUBBER coMPANY, or

OHIO.

AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNORS T THE AKRON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF REINFORCEMENT FOR CUSHION-TIRES.

Specification o1' Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 28, 1919.

Application filed .Tune 11, 1817. Serial No. 174,047.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that we, JAMES E. HALE and "ELMER F. BRUNNER citizens of 'the United States, lresidin at kron, in the county of Summit and i tate of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Base-Reinforcements for Cushion-Tires', of which the following is a speciiication.

Our present invention relates to a cushion tire construction involving a fabric re- ,-inforoed and stiiiened base of such nature lthat the tire clamping means heretofore customarily employed in conjunction with certain classes of cushion tires may be dispensed with without loss of function. In cushion tires formed with an internal cavity of the ty e in which the base of the tire is formed o. a pair of separate annular portions, individually joined to a common 'tead portion by respective annular side walls, such as the tire illustrated in the epding application of James E. Hale, filed h/Iay 13, 1916, Serial No. 97,334, it hasI been customary to employ a clamping ring which engaged both of the inner edges of the separate bases. The function of this clamping ring is to prevent the inner base edges of the tire from so curling up into the cavity or overriding one another as to release the outer base edges from the elampin side flanges which are utilized to maintain the tire upon its wheel felly. We have discovered, however, that this inner clampingl ring may be dispensed with by the ilse o fabric inserts so placed along the inner base edges as to simulate, in cross sectional view, the clamp itself, `and to so stiifenthe tire at the points usually engaged by the clamp as to render the use of any such extraneous fastening device unnecessary.

Moreover, we have found that by a pro er improvement of the plies of fabric requently incorporated into the individual base portions of a. cushion tire of this type, these plies may be made to take upon themselves the added function of replacing the inner clamp ring as Well as servin their more lusual oil'ice of strengthening t e separate base portions of thc tire against the lateral compression of the side rings.

As the principal object, accordingly. We propose to incorporate into the individual base portions of the type of cushion tire above referred to, fabric plies which are arranged not only arallel to the felly band of the wheel but a so in planes centrally vertical thereto in order to provie on the inner flanges of the base portion, abutnients of such stiffness that no dangerof displacement of these abutments into the in'ner cave ity of the tire need be anticipated.

The above and additional objects of a similar nature, which will be hereinafter more specifically treated, are preferably `accomplished by such means as are illustrated in the accompanyingr drawings, described in the following specification, and then more particularly pointed out in the claims which are appended hereto and form a part of this application.

In the drawing the ligure is a cross sectional view of a cushion tire as constructed in accordance with the tenets of this invention.

In the pending application of James E.

`Hale above referred to there is illustrated a method of employing successive layers of fabric reinforcement in theA individual base portions of a cushion tire of a type to which the A present invention is pertinent. The main function of these fabric inserts in the pending Hale application is that of providing a graduated reinforcement for each base portion which is cxtcriorly elastic but which is substantially stiifened from a pointadjacent to the exterior of the tire bases in degree diminishing into the respectivo side Walls upon which the bases are carried.

ln our present invention this function of the fabric strips is not interfered with but an added function is delegated to the fabric inserts and is accoiiiplishcd by thc particular construction and arrangement of the fabric reinforcement not heretofore conteniplated. We preferably reinforce each of the separate base portions A and B of the cushion tire with an exterior ply of fabric 7 extending from the outer bead edge 8 of each of the separate tire bases completely around the base and along the inner bead edge 9 thereof. Successive fabric strips 10, 11, 12, and 13 are provided as interior layers of gradually diminishing Width for each of the base portions A and B, in milch the same manner as disclosed in the mentioned application, which it is the il'ltention of this invention to improve. .Each of the interiorly arranged fabric strips 10, 11, 12, and 13, however, have one construe-tional difference in comparison With the corresponding re'1nforcing stri )s of the pending application Serial No. 9. ,334, which is to be seen in the arrangement of the inner edge of each str1 or ply in vertical fashion denoted as a who e by the numeral 14. In the space between the inner beads 9 of the base portions the vertieal extremities of these horizontal strips are closely compacted on the inner bead 9 of each of the base portions A and B and serve to provide a vertical reinforcement or abutment or these inner beads which results in a stiifening thereof to such an extent that the inner clamp rin previously employed b Hale in his cushioning cavity ma be who] not only t at the inner beads are reinforced by the fabric inserts in the present invention which renders the latter capable of avoiding the use of the clamp ring, but also the fact that such reinorrements as are herein provided are of such a nature as to simulate the stiffening of these inner beads which was provided solely by the 'inner clamp ring in the previous tires of this type.

The abutrnents on the inner beads 9 of the separate base portions A and B are juxtaosed or Contiguous in the resent invention Instead of being separate by a stern or clamp ring as in previously evolved types of this tire. When so eontiguous the individual abutments on the Vinner beads 9 combine to provide a reinforcement as a whole which is capable of resisting any stress on that part of the tire tending to dis place them from the position illustrated.

What we claim is:

1. A cushion tire provided with an inner cavit and separate base portions, each of said ase portions having an outer portion and an inner bead portion, and a reinforcing means for each base portion extending y dispensed with. It is from the outer edge portion to the inner bead portion, said reinforcing means grad ually increasing in thiekness toward the said inner bead portion and having a portion bent substantially at right angles around said inner bead portion to forni al'mtnients, whereby said inner bead portions are hold in spaced relation to each other.

2. A cushion tire provided with an inner eavit and separato base portions, ear-h of said iase portions having an outer nd re and an inner uiead portion, and a rein oreing means for ear-.h separate base portion includ` ing super-posed fabric plies, each successive ply of relatively greater width from the innermost to the outermost, the inner edge of each ply being bent at an angle around and against said inner bead portionwto form abutrnents between said separate base por` tions whereby said inner beads are held in spaced relation to each other.

3. A cushion tire provided with an inner cavity and separate base portions, each ol said base portions having an outer head portion and an inner bead portion, and reinforcing means inrorporated in each separate base portion including superposed fabric plies of suressively decreasing width, extending from around the outer bead portion to and around the inner bead portion, the inner edge of each ply being bent' at an angle against said inner bead portion to form vertical abntrnents between said sep arate base portions .whereby said inner beads are held in spaced 1elation'`to each' other.

In testimony whereof we have si ed our names 1n the presence of two su seribing witnesses.

`JAMES E. HALE. 'ELMER I". BRUNNER.

Witnesses:

W. E. SHIvEnY, J. E. KEA'rINo 

